Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18302Jan 22, 2018 10:25 am Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18303Jan 22, 2018 10:35 am Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18305Jan 22, 2018 9:07 pm KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18306Jan 22, 2018 9:11 pm KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18307Jan 22, 2018 9:14 pm SejaeD SejaeD JK27 Ssssoooo, we received an email from our SS last Thursday, update on progress, book in second PCI and potential Handover for next Thursday. Stated that he had spent the whole day on site with his maintenance man, and ALL brickwork and mortar issues had been rectified (amongst other things!). Now I don't like calling people incompetent or liars, but when we stopped by on Thursday night to have a quick squiz - so many of the chipped and broken bricks we asked to have replaced, are still there!!! Secondly, they have used GREY Cement to fill holes in our Off-White Mortar, see attached pics - but it's like this all of the brickwork. Now for the life of us, either the SS is lieing about being on-site ALL day or he is that incompetent that he allowed the maintenance guy to use Grey Cement. We just can't figure it out!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ That brickwork repair is appalling. No other words to describe it! on second thoughts, you should email those photos to the owner of clarendon ( peter Campbell) email pcambell@clarendon.com.au SejaeD Thank you I will definitely need that email. I'm not going to go away quietly, and I think we are going to be their nicest worst customers. We have been so patient and haven't said very much this past 12 months, but this is not on. Not for me, not for anyone else on this forum and I am sick to death of hearing that this is what this industry is like - they need to be held accountable. KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18308Jan 22, 2018 9:20 pm Word of advice - Check everything, and the check, check and check again!!! We noticed our $1050 SupaScreen Security Door had a midrail through the mesh. We've had this product before, hence the reason we wanted it again, and the concept behind the mesh is that it is unobstructed. I've been calling EHI since they got back this year to query it. Last spoke to them last Wednesday, this morning I had enough of no feedback so fired of an email cc'ing CSC. Got an email back from them this afternoon advising that they had made error with our Door and that they will need to replace it. Now, our SS didn't pick up on it (no surprise there), EHI didn't realise the error, had we not noticed and persisted in querying it, it would have remained. I have no issue with EHI quality - far from it, it's great! I have an issue with overall culture of Clarendon and affiliates of extremely poor customer service and the fact that they feel it's ok to either not return calls or emails. Sorry, rant over! KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18309Jan 22, 2018 9:25 pm JK, sorry to hear your issues. I guess we were just lucky! Considering I’m building like 10mins away from you and having the same SS. I had a couple of minor issues but nothing like yours. Hope yours gets sorted ASAP. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18310Jan 22, 2018 9:36 pm k3nnis JK, sorry to hear your issues. I guess we were just lucky! Considering I’m building like 10mins away from you and having the same SS. I had a couple of minor issues but nothing like yours. Hope yours gets sorted ASAP. I'm alittle jealous k3nnis to be perfectly honest, we thought we were on a good thing too, but it's just gone down hill in a short space of time. We are still trying to stay positive and hopeful, and if they pull their finger out and actually do the right thing, it will be fine. It's when he says things like 'you won't even notice', or 'it's ALL been done' when it hasn't, is the downer. The house is 98% ready, it's the 2% - specifically in the attention to detail - that's killing us!! KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18311Jan 22, 2018 9:38 pm JK27 k3nnis JK, sorry to hear your issues. I guess we were just lucky! Considering I’m building like 10mins away from you and having the same SS. I had a couple of minor issues but nothing like yours. Hope yours gets sorted ASAP. I'm alittle jealous k3nnis to be perfectly honest, we thought we were on a good thing too, but it's just gone down hill in a short space of time. We are still trying to stay positive and hopeful, and if they pull their finger out and actually do the right thing, it will be fine. It's when he says things like 'you won't even notice', or 'it's ALL been done' when it hasn't, is the downer. The house is 98% ready, it's the 2% - specifically in the attention to detail - that's killing us!! Yep. I think mine was 99%. They had some delays with my driveway as my council changed procedures since the merge. So actually we would have moved in a month earlier if that did not happen. He wanted me to move in before driveway and promised it would be done. I said no. I wanted it to be done before handover as I still have the power if I don’t have over the cheque! Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18312Jan 22, 2018 10:02 pm k3nnis I shudder to think if we had also got our driveway through them!!! KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18313Jan 22, 2018 10:05 pm JK27 @k3nnis I shudder to think if we had also got our driveway through them!!! The driveway choice was a last minute thing at contract. Reason I went with it was I wanted to move in after handover. Did not want to move in with dirt there. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18314Jan 22, 2018 11:42 pm k3nnis JK27 @k3nnis I shudder to think if we had also got our driveway through them!!! The driveway choice was a last minute thing at contract. Reason I went with it was I wanted to move in after handover. Did not want to move in with dirt there. Totally understand. That's how we're feeling now - in the process of getting quotes so that we can get onto asap. Ours isn't really dirt anymore, it's more like compacted dust - so so dusty!! That and the front fences KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18315Jan 23, 2018 9:56 am JK27 k3nnis JK27 @k3nnis I shudder to think if we had also got our driveway through them!!! The driveway choice was a last minute thing at contract. Reason I went with it was I wanted to move in after handover. Did not want to move in with dirt there. Totally understand. That's how we're feeling now - in the process of getting quotes so that we can get onto asap. Ours isn't really dirt anymore, it's more like compacted dust - so so dusty!! That and the front fences How did your walkthrough go today? Hope there is progress! Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18316Jan 23, 2018 9:58 am For those who are still in pre-build, don't forget to get double glazing, we totally forgot in our build and I've spent the last few days trying to see if it's possible to retrofit in..long story short, it's hard and expensive Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18317Jan 23, 2018 9:59 am vincent2166 For those who are still in pre-build, don't forget to get double glazing, we totally forgot in our build and I've spent the last few days trying to see if it's possible to retrofit in..long story short, it's hard and expensive What’s double glazing?? Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18318Jan 23, 2018 10:01 am Two panes of glass in windows with an air gap inbetween. Increases the insulation of the windows to prevent heat gain/loss Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 18320Jan 23, 2018 10:04 am k3nnis Hmm I’m not sure if I have it or not..probably not as I did not ask for it? Probably. the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 3130 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 3903 I’m curious about how you went with this. We are planning a KDRB and considering Plantation Homes as a builder. I’m aware that after the demolition another soil test… 1 6305 |